From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12831 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2001 02:45:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9114 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2001 02:44:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net) (204.127.131.46) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2001 02:44:26 -0000 Received: from utq6e ([12.75.167.101]) by mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20011209024425.VJRX5540.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@utq6e> for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 02:44:25 +0000 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: "Cygwin mailing list" Subject: Re: setting up mutt Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 20:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00493.txt.bz2 > I have never used it on UNIX, but I am trying to set up mutt on > cygwin/win2k. What is the best way to do this? I am not above RTFMing, > but I can't find the manual that answers these questions. > That's partially my fault and partially yours ;-). The .txt manual is in your /usr/doc/ directory (along with much other documentation for the other packages), under mutt/manual.txt. Also there's a sample.muttrc under mutt/samples. There's also supposed to be an HTML copy of the same info in there, but it mysteriously escaped from the package somehow. I think my dog may have eaten it ;-). I'm rerolling it as we speak and that and a few other things should be remedied. > To download mail from a pop3 account, I see that I can set pop_host in my > .muttrc, or I could use fetchmail like unixmail for windows > (http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/). What are the > advantages/disadvantages of one over the other? > No fetchmail: easy. Fetchmail: not as easy, but allows you to pipe to procmail for more advanced filtering etc. > What are my options for sending it to an SMTP server? Unixmail comes with > sSMTP, are there any other options? > Cygwin has a ported ssmtp package. That's what I've been using and it works great. > What do I need to do to set up mail filtering? I found a procmail binary > for cygwin at http://www.dd.iij4u.or.jp/~madokam/, but I have no idea how > to use it. Do I need use it in conjunction with fetchmail? Yep, AFAIK. What you have to do is pipe fetchmail into procmail. He's got sample .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc's on the site that show how to do it. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/